A baseball season takes a while to complete, and it’s especially long for teams that start early overseas and for teams that advance all the way to the World Series. The 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers started their season on March 18 in Tokyo and ended on November 1 in Toronto, the longest season in MLB history.
Over the course of a long season, teams need an absurdly large cast of characters, sometimes just to get by. Which leads to factoids like this: for the roughly 11 weeks Lou Trivino was active with the Dodgers, nobody on the team pitched more often.
The veteran right-hander did not pitch in the majors during the previous two seasons while recovering from Tommy John surgery in May 2023. This year he got into 47 games in the majors for three teams, finishing up with the Phillies after he was released by the Dodgers in July.
With the Dodgers, Trivino was a busy man, pitching three times in a four-day stretch three different times in June, and then pitched three days in a row twice in July. He didn’t often pitch in high-leverage situations, entering with a lead only eight times in his 26 games for Los Angeles. But he filled a role, pitching in parts of two innings 12 times, and 17 of his 26 appearances were scoreless.
Stats: 26 games, 2-1, 3.76 ERA, 26 1/3 IP, 8 BB, 18 K, 4.12 FIP with Dodgers
Salary: unknown with Dodgers (earned pro-rated share of $1.5 million for his time with Giants, with whom he signed a minor league contract in February)
On June 27 in Kansas City, Trivino entered in the sixth inning and promptly allowed a single to Royals catcher Freddy Fermin, who was replaced by pinch-runner Tyler Tolbert. Trivino picked Tolbert off first base, then retired his next four batters faced for 1 2/3 scoreless innings with a strikeout, and earned one of his two wins for the Dodgers in relief.
Trivino picked off two runners while with the Dodgers, the only two pickoffs of his six-year major league career to date.